venereal diseases
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The historian AJP Taylor said cattily that free treatment for venereal diseases was “the only innovation in ‘welfare’ directly attributable to the first world war”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018
The boy, a brilliant student, attended schools in Vienna, including Sigmund Freud’s old “gymnasium,” and summered in Sofia, Bulgaria, where his father specialized in treating venereal diseases before penicillin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2015
World War II fervor and the excitement over penicillin, then a scarce, new drug, contributed to the rush to test this promising medicine against venereal diseases that commonly afflicted soldiers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2011
As one of the nation's leading urologists and one of its most effective crusaders against venereal diseases, Dr. Schmidt would get both his cigars and the unstinted praises of his associates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, one may catch venereal diseases, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox, mumps, bolls, body lice, ringworm, barber's itch, dhopie itch, and some other diseases.
From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917 To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training by United States War Department
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